No. We’re all waiting for this guy to activate it so we can get to work.

systemd, as a service manager, is decent. Not necessarily a huge improvement for most use cases.

systemd, the feature creep that decides to pull every single possible use case into itself to manage everything in one place, with qwirks because making a “generic, do everything” piece of software is not a good idea, is not that great.

systemd, the group of tools that decided to manage everything by rewriting everything from scratch and suffering from the same issue that were fixed decades ago, just because “we can do better” while changing all well known interfaces and causing a schism with either double workload or dropping support for half the landscape from other software developer is really stupid.

If half the energy that got spent in the “systemd” ecosystem was spent in existing projects and solutions that already addressed these same issues, it’s likely we’d be in a far better place. Alas, it’s a new ecosystem, so we spend a lot of energy getting to the same point we were before. And it’s likely that when we get close to that, something new will show up and start the cycle again.

Native package manager > Native binaries > AppImage > Flatpak.

Yes, snap isn’t even on the scale.

They’re planning on making a version where everything is a snap. Performance and usability may come later, who knows.

“Stalled I/O” has entered the process list :D

Someone made that, sort of. Unfortunately, the privacy nightmare is slightly reduced compared to the original one.

https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

Because saying things, even if they are known, is a thing humans do for various reasons. It seems that sometimes they need to be reminded simple truth.

It’s true though. Saying this is not necessarily meant to be the end of a discussion.

They want to sell thinner phones, but the optics needs some room to be useful, so it shows. The little range they can get with keeping that much width do a lot for image quality.

We had IoT, Web3, and now AI. Part of it seems linked to very good salespeople pushing it onto other salespeople.

For the first two, we’ve seen business spinup quickly and have very aggressive arguments, backed by cash, pushed onto existing business as “the solution to everything”. Only to burn down later as a gimmick nobody really cares beyond a handful of niche applications.

So far with AI there’s a handful of “big name” business that pushes it as the ultimate solution for everything and are injecting ton of cash in that discourse. We just have to wait a bit if the last part of that happens. After that we’ll go back to normal until the next “big thing” gets propped up.

I don’t see him running a lot already.

The good old lying approach, I see.

Lots of changes. Not much on the outside, but fix breakable/broken stuff, be more efficient, this kind of things. Not having to worry about your own body betraying you seems like a good idea.

I use a mouse btw.

Probably yes. As long as it’s something that would reasonably not be ok to watch in public/family/work environment, it’s always better to be on the cautious side.

There’s a setting to just not blur NSFW tagged content, for people that are not concerned.

For a lot of project “compiling yourself”, while obviously more involved than running some magic install command, is really not that tedious. Good projects have decent documentation in that regard and usually streamline everything down to a few things to configure and be done with it.

What’s aggravating is projects that explicitly go out of their way to make building them difficult, removing existing documentation and helper tools and replacing them with “use whatever we decided to use”. I hate these.

Fair. Also, flatpak does not try to break everything by default, which is a plus.

Humans loves to see patterns in everything.

I like the “encryption, but we have the keys” approach. Makes it very secure, especially since MS never had any security breach or leak, ever.

HTTPS isn’t only about encryption; it’s about talking to the right servers.